Alpana Habib is a Bangladeshi cook expert and cookbook writer.

Biography

Alpana Habib was born on 26 September 1966 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. She was brought up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She studied in Holy Cross Girls' High School and Holy Cross College. She was a student in

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's Psychology Department. Though she is a cook expert, she has worked in

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and Singapore Airlines. She started cooking when she was in Class Six. She has run a cook school. Her cooking programs were broadcast by

Desh TV Desh TV ( bn, দেশ টিভি; ), stylized as DESHTV, is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable television channel owned by Desh Television Limited, a part of the Karnaphuli Group conglomerate. It officially commenced broadca ...

, NTV, ATN Bangla and

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too. She opened her YouTube channel in 2012. Her cooking videos are viewed more than 200 million times. She also worked as a judge of "Teer Little Chef" in

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. She was awarded ‘Inspiring Women in Culinary Arts’ by Women in Leadership and Brand Forum. On 13 May 2018 her bilingual book ''Alpana's Cooking'' (

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:''আলপনার রান্না'') was unveiled. The book was edited and translated by Ashfaque Swapon. For this book she was awarded Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2019. She married Syed Ahsan Habib who is an electrical engineer. They have two children. Their names are Aritri and Adrit.

References

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